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WASHINGTON — Virginia
Knauer, consumer adviser to
presidents Nixon, Ford and
Reagan, said most consumer
issues have now been buried by an
overwhelming worry about infla
tion.
“The whole mood in the coun
try is Let s make sure that all the
regulations that are coming forth
are cost effective.’ I think that’s
“The whole mood in the
country is ‘Let’s make
sure that all the regula
tions that are coming
forth are cost effec
tive. ' I think that’s ex
actly what this adminis
tration is doing, ” said
Virginia Knauer, con
sumer adviser for pres
idents Nixon, Ford and
Carter.
exactly what this administration is
doing,” Knauer said in an inter
view.
“During the past 12 years we —
everyone — through a joint effort,
put a lot of consumer legislation on
the books — credit, credit for
women, packaging and labeling.
These are all very hot issues.
“Now in the past two years of
traveling as a private citizen, I
found that the one thing people
have sudddenly awakened to is
the fact that inflation is something
that hits them, and they have a
better understanding of how it
works.
“There’s no doubt in my mind
that inflation became the number
one consumer concern.”
She said consumers and their
lobbyists in the past often left in
flation and unemployment to the
lawmakers and the economists. In
her own previous service at the
White House, Knauer found her
self involved in issues ranging
from shortages of canning lids to
how goods are shelf-priced in su
permarkets.
“If the administration can turn
the economy around,” she said, “I
think people will then perceive
that everything is getting better
and I think they will then begin to
go back to some of the generic
consumer issues — the ones we
used to have.”
Knauer said she will not lobby
Congress to restore budget cuts in
consumer agencies.
“It’s really up to the agencies,”
she said “We all have sustained
budget cuts but I think this is what
the people wanted. I think the
perception was that the govern
ment had grown too big.
“But even if the president gets
every single one of his cuts, this
administration will be spending
six percept more than they did this
current year. Sb what he haii done
is not wipe out everything, but
shift the empahsis.”
In her return to the White
House Knauer has been given ex
panded duties involving aged and
disabled Americans as well as
more general health and safety
issues.
T’m particularly interested in
the area of aging women,” she
said. “They face many, many
problems. One of the ones that is
surfacing now that distresses the
most is the lack of safety on the
streets and in their homes.
“Every day we read about some
elderly person, man or woman,
whose house has been invaded
“There’s no doubt in
my mind that inflation
became the number
one consumer con
cern, ” Knauer said.
and they’ve been brutalized. This
has become a major concern,” she
said.
Knauer said specific programs
for her new responsibilities have
yet to be devised, but education
and working through groups
which represent the elderly will
be one direction in which she will
head.
When she was asked whether
she thought the organized con
sumer lobbyists in Washington
should give up and and leave
town, she said:
“No. No. I think it’s very impor
tant they express their concern
“I’m particularly in
terested in the area of' 1
aging women, ” Knauer
said. “They face many,
many problems. One of
the ones that is surfac
ing now that distresses
them most is the lack of
safety on the streets
and in their homes. ”
and the concern of their consti
tuencies. I do feel that we don’t
have to agree on everything but,
we can seek common ground. This
is what we’ve been saying to each
other.”
Knauer also said she thinks
Americans are “much better con
sumers” today.
“They’re more sophisticated.
They’re much more able to handle
complaints than they once were,
and I think this is largely traceable
to what we did in the ‘70s.
“And also because business has
reponded by having consumer
affairs professionals right in their
own companies. And, let’s face it,
when I came to Washington (12
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Caveman courting lives
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SEATTLE — Modern man may
not be much beyond the cave man
when it comes to courting girls,
says anthropologist David Givens.
Givens, a University of
Washington professor, specializes
in studying the ways men and
women are brought together.
His main laboratory is the Hub,
the student gathering center on
the university campus. He spends
hours quietly observing young
men and women and what they do
to attract persons of the opposite
sex.
Givens finds early communica
tion between strangers is nonver
bal body language. This, the pro
fessor says, involves preening,
drawing in of the stomach and
posture correction as each gra
dually becomes more aware of the
other.
A man and a woman who reach
the conclusion they are attracted
to each other are in a state of “isop-
raxism, ” Givens says. They are be
having in like patterns. He says
this behavior pattern is also found
among birds and fish and is “real,
real important in courtship.”
Givens says men and women
can’t just go up and say something
when they want to meet because
there’s something in the mind that
prevents this approach.
“In the emotional centers of the
brain, we re jerked around by
these patterns formed millions
and millions of years ago.
... in courtship, we’re still
with the apes and monkeys and
whatever. ”
Besides, Givens says a spoken
message is “too strong. ” The
preening, hair tossing, tummy
tucking or chest expanding is the
unlearned, non-conscious, in
stinctive stuff of which budding
romance is made.
The professor says the miles
tone in early courting lies in find
ing ways to “accidentally” touch.
“They’ll do the sneakiest thing
to get a touch,” he says, then
they’ll snitch a hug and modify it
with humor. Givens says humor is
vital.
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years ago) there were only 16 state
bureaus (of consumer protection).
Now they have consumer protec
tion offices in every state, and
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governor’s office and one in the
attorney general’s.”
In her time out of office Knauer
opened a consulting firm. She di
vested her interest in it to return.
In other areas Knauer said:
—Her “favorite grandchild” is
the Consumer Information Cen
ter that she helped found 10 years
ago. The Boulder, Colo., center
promotes and distributes a host of
government publications, many of
them free.
—She has ordered the staff of
the U.S. Office of Consumer
Affairs, which she heads, to stop
intervening in proceedings in
other regulatory proceedings. “I
thought that was not proper. Ob
viously Congress was outraged ab
out it. I don’t think a White House
spokesman or a federal officer
should be intervening in any state
ratemaking case, for example.”
—She still backs the concept of
a Federal Trade Commission
proposal to require more consum
er information from funeral dire
ctors.
“I just think people in a time of
grief need all the information they
can get. And the ethical undertak
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formation.”
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